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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTOPHER G. nonen,

JR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y:

DlSTEMPER-PAINT,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 223,895, dated January 27, 1880.

in the proportions hereinafter specified.

In. preparing the calcimine or distemper paints, I take three hundred and twenty pounds of paris-white or its equivalent, and add to it a prepared sizing composed ofsixteen pounds of glue, sixteen pounds of White soap. eight pounds of chloride of calcium, and one hundred and sixty pounds of, water. These ingredients are mixed and ground together until thoroughlyintermingled, and to the mixture is then added one-cighth of a pound of pure carbolic acid.

The mixture thus preparedforms a'calcimine, wall, or distemper paint of a consist ency similar to white-lead in oil, and is put up into packages of various size for market, and is diluted with Water when required for use.

Application filed May 2, 1879.

The effect of the soap and calcium salt is to produce a wall-paint,or calcimine that will work smooth under the brush; that will not peel, crack, or scale from the surface to which it may be applied; that will not decompose, putrefy, or grow offensive in odor by standing, and will act as a disinfectant to the surface to which it may be applied.

Galcimine, wall, or distemper paints compounded in the manner hereinbefore described, with the addition of coloring materials, may be made of various shades and tints, and the addition of the hereinbeforedescribed sizing to colored pigments or lakes forms what are termed distemper or fresco colors or distemper paints.

as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat ent An improved calcimine ordistemper pain consisting of paris-white, glue, white soap, chloride of calcium, carbolic acid, and water, mixed in the proportions substantially as herein described, and for the purpose set forth.

CHRISTOPHER G. DODGE, JR.

Witnesses:

G. SRDeWrcK, J. H. SCARBOROUGH.

Having thus described in invention, 1 claim, 

